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"How full is your newsfeed with selfies? Here, let me add another to your list&amp;#8212;this is me, with a kid (I am a horrible taker of selfies, by the way. I&amp;#39;m not even kidding). Now just wait until you hear how self-shots like this (well, or at least kind of like this) might have an impact on your health.\nPinterestFacebookSometimes, you might do some solo selfies. But you know how there are occasions where you take selfies with friends or other people, smooshing your heads together to get the perfect shot? According to Marcy McQuillan, a lice expert, elementary school kids are usually the ones who experience the most instances of head lice. But, in recent months, there&amp;#39;s been an uptick of the nasty little critters in teens and college students&amp;#8212;very possibly due to the proliferation of selfies.\nShe told SFist: &amp;quot;Typically it&amp;#39;s younger children I treat, because they&amp;#39;re at higher risk for head-to-head contact. But now, teens are sticking their heads together every day to take cell phone pics.... Here&amp;#39;s the problem. We&amp;#39;re getting more of the high school and college kids than middle-schoolers.&amp;quot;\nHead lice usually infest people&amp;#39;s heads and necks, attaching their eggs to the base of the hair shaft. (This is making me feel squicky.) They usually hitchhike their way onto others with close person-to-person contact; there are over-the-counter and prescription meds available for treating the infestations, but it&amp;#39;s still a huge bummer to get lice in the first place. I mean, obviously.\nPretty yucky&amp;#8212;but I have to say that I think it&amp;#39;s also kind of an interesting phenomenon! Do you do group selfies? Would this ever be something you might worry about?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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